Legend for Chart: A - No heading for first column B - Prosecution C - Defense D - Judge Ito A B C D Week 34 The glove may not Dream Team deflated He’s no Vince but have fit, but the state’s fiber and Lombardi, Bruno Magli shoes glove experts. But Ito’s end-is-near may make the man. it tripped over the pep talks might be An FBI shoe expert footprint impressions buoying jurors. pointed to one at the crime scene, killer–who wore a weakening its size 12, like two-killer theory. guess who. Total gavels 84 Strong case, 104 A loomy defense 82 Careened from wobbly strategy presented laissez-faire presentation. effectively by Dream indulgence to The damning DNA Team. Predisposed picayune fussiness. evidence was jurors can pick from But difficult buried in a a smorgasbord of rulings often hit mountain of exculpatory theories: the mark. meandering contaminated testimony that evidence, corrupt overreacted to cops, too little anticipated time or two killers. defense attacks. Prosecutors lost Big Mo early on. Hits The proof: Mountain Poking holes: Barry Still going: No one of evidence Scheck’s dismantling has ever presided includes of LAPD criminalist over a case like 1-in-57-billion DNA Dennis Fung; the this. It hasn’t blood matches and Fuhrman tapes; the derailed. He’d be potent shoe and prosecution’s failed blamed if it had, so fiber testimony glove experiment. he deserves credit pointing to O.J. for marching on. Misses Tight squeeze: The False promises: The Never-ending story: ‘Gloves Don’t Fit’ defense deep-sixed Granted way too much exhibition was as troubled alibi latitude to both bad as it comes witnesses Rosa Lopez sides to meander, – until the Mark and Mary Ann Gerchas; nearly losing the Fuhrman tapes came Ito barred Colombian jury. Also, should along drug lords. not be in position of defending wife from bench. How they’ll close Mark who? State Emotional chords: Stopwatch: Keep must weave the Defense will say tight rein on scientific Simpson’s an closing arguments. evidence with the All-Star nice guy Please, Judge. powerful who had neither the they’ve tried their circumstantial time nor the case. Tell them to case to keep jury inclination to kill. finish up and sit focused on Simpson. And by the way, cops down. Needs to say that contaminated the doubts raised by case. defense are fanciful, not reasonable.
